Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fight? What about walking into a top-level MMA team’s home gym with zero experience and going through practice with the pros? What about sparring one of the best fighters in the UFC having never thrown a punch in your life?

Personally, I think it would be hilarious to see someone try.

And it was.

Let me back up a second.

A few months back, I made an appearance on U-T TV’s “Sports Page” to talk about MMA with host and U-T columnist Kevin Acee.

As a former longtime Chargers beat writer, Acee knows football inside and out. He knows some other sports, too. But in the fall, he knew nothing about MMA.

I started going on the show once a week or so to talk about what was happening in the column, and he called out Dan Henderson on the air. I’m not even kidding. Now Acee is a confident guy, is even in pretty good shape for a 43-year-old newspaper reporter. But I’m not sure how the words, “I bet I could take out Dan Henderson, or any of those guys” ever escaped his lips. Now, I’m (pretty) sure he was kidding, but what the heck.

“You know, I can arrange that for you,” was my response.

“Do it, I’m ready, I’m in shape,” he told me.

In football, you can say stuff and get away with it. But I remembered when I was about 12 years old, walking through boxing practice on my way to the batting cages, and some amount of trash talk escaped my pie hole and the coach heard me. He grabbed me by my neck, put boxing gloves on me and promptly had his best boxer knock me down and bloody my face before I could take it back.

So I talked to Phil Davis.

Davis, who will be fighting No. 1 light-heavyweight contender Lyoto Machida in Brazil on Aug. 3, was kind enough to grant Acee his wish.

Now, I have to give Acee his due. When we scheduled a day for a TV crew to go to Alliance Training Center on sparring day to witness him go through a pro workout, get his first boxing lesson and then get locked in the cage against a four-time Division I All-America wrestler, he actually showed up.

Lucas Zapata ran the main camera and sound on the shoot, I helped out with the b-roll and some production and Kevin, well, he didn’t die.

He went through Team Alliance’s warm-up with them, which, by the way, would exhaust any mortal. Then he got some one-on-one boxing lessons from coach George Castro. While the rest of the team was in full-blown sparring, Kevin was literally being told for the first time what a jab was.

After practice wrapped up, he got greased up and stepped into the cage. It was some of the most entertaining 10 minutes I’ve ever seen. Guys like Brandon Vera, Joey Beltran and Chris Leben lobbed coaching to no avail, even begged for Davis to “finish him.” One liver shot almost sent Acee to the canvas.

Granted, Davis was giving it around 10 percent power, but he moved and worked the way he always does. He gave Acee some pretty clean shots and took him down, arm-barred him and punched him some more.

Have you ever tried to hold your breath for 10 minutes and actually move, let alone keep Phil Davis from breaking you in half? Neither have I. But I’ve boxed and not breathed correctly, and it’s the kind of fatigue that makes your intestines melt into suffering.

I thought Acee would quit after the first round and lobbed out, “You’ve got one more round!” in jest really. But that dude went through with it.

Of course we recorded all of this on video and are in production of a piece that I can’t wait to see. It will air on Monday on U-T TV and on